Trello pricing: when Standard is enough and when Premium starts to matter
Most teams do not shop for Trello pricing. They arrive at it, usually on the day someone tries to create an eleventh board and finds the workspace will not allow it. The question at that moment is narrow and practical: is the $5 plan enough, or does the jump to $10 have to happen now?
The answer turns on one thing more than any other. Standard removes the board limit. Premium is where the alternative views live, meaning calendar, timeline, table and dashboard. If the team is happy looking at work as cards in lists, the cheaper plan holds for a long time. If someone needs to see the same work against dates, the price doubles. This article works through each plan as listed on the Trello pricing page in September 2026, in US dollars.
What the plans cost
Prices are per user per month.
| Plan | Billed annually | Billed monthly | Aimed at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | Up to 10 collaborators per Workspace |
| Standard | $5 per user per month | $6 per user per month | Teams that outgrew 10 boards |
| Premium | $10 per user per month | $12.50 per user per month | Teams that need calendar, timeline and dashboard views |
| Enterprise | $17.50 per user per month | Annual only, $210 per user per year | Organizations with many Workspaces and central control |
Enterprise is billed annually and the page carries a cost estimator that works out a figure for a given number of users, so the $17.50 shown is a starting point rather than a fixed rate for every organization.
Free: ten boards and ten collaborators
The free plan is not a trial. It includes unlimited cards, unlimited Power-Ups per board, an unlimited activity log, assignees and due dates, custom backgrounds and stickers, the Inbox, quick capture from email, Slack and Teams, the mobile apps, and two factor authentication.
Two caps define it:
- Up to 10 boards per Workspace
- Free for up to 10 collaborators per Workspace
Two smaller ones matter in practice. File attachments are capped at 10 MB each, though total storage is unlimited, and automation is limited to 250 Workspace command runs per month. The Planner view is available in read only form.
Ten boards sounds generous until a team adopts the habit of one board per client or one per project. At that point the cap arrives in a month or two. The 10 MB file limit is the other common trigger, because a single design export or a short video clip will exceed it.
Standard: unlimited boards for $5
Standard is $5 per user per month billed annually, or $6 billed monthly. It is the smallest paid step and it removes the limit that usually forces the decision:
- Unlimited boards
- Advanced checklists, which allow members and due dates on individual checklist items
- Custom fields
- Card mirroring, so one card can appear on several boards
- List colors and collapsible lists
- Saved searches
- Single board guests
- File attachments up to 250 MB each
- 1,000 Workspace command runs per month
- The AI features, including AI summarization, AI organization, AI generated boards and quick capture powered by AI
- Full access to Planner, meaning cards can be dragged onto a calendar to block time
That is a lot of movement for $5. Card mirroring in particular solves a problem teams usually solve badly, which is the same task needing to be visible on a team board and a personal board without being copied twice.
Support on Standard is local business hours rather than community forums.
Premium: paying for views
Premium is $10 per user per month billed annually, or $12.50 billed monthly. Double the Standard price, and almost all of the difference is about seeing the same work in another shape:
- Calendar view
- Timeline view
- Table view
- Dashboard view
- Map view
- Workspace level table and calendar views, which span several boards
- Unlimited Workspace command runs
- Workspace level templates
- Board collections for grouping boards
- Observers, a setting that limits what a user can do on a board
- Admin and security features, including domain restricted invites and the ability to deactivate members
- Simple data export
- 24/5 support
The pattern is clear once it is named. A kanban board is a good way to see what is in progress and a poor way to see what is due in three weeks. Trello puts that second question on the plan above. For a team that mostly works from a backlog and a "doing" column, Standard is genuinely sufficient. For a team with deadlines it has to hold, timeline and calendar are not optional, and Premium is the floor.
Workspace level views are the second reason teams move up. Table and calendar across a whole Workspace are the only way to see several boards at once without a Power-Up doing the work.
Enterprise and Atlassian Guard
Enterprise is listed at $17.50 per user per month billed annually, shown as $210 per user per year. It adds unlimited Workspaces, organization wide permissions, organization visible boards, public board management, multi board guests, attachment restrictions, Power-Up administration, and 24/7 admin support.
One line on the comparison table deserves attention from smaller teams too. SAML single sign on runs through Atlassian Guard, which is a separate subscription across Atlassian products starting at $4 per user per month. It is marked as available on Free, Standard and Premium, and included with Enterprise.
That changes the arithmetic for anyone who needs single sign on but not the rest of Enterprise. Premium at $10 plus Guard at $4 is $14 per user per month, against Enterprise at $17.50 which bundles Guard Standard. Which is cheaper depends entirely on whether the organization wide controls are needed for their own sake.
The AI features start at Standard, not Premium
This is a recent change to how the plans are drawn, and it runs against the usual pattern. Ordinarily the newest features land on the most expensive tier. Here they sit on the cheapest paid one.
Four rows in the comparison table are marked as unavailable on Free and available on Standard, Premium and Enterprise alike:
- AI summarization, which generates and corrects card descriptions and comments
- AI organization, which generates checklists and images, adds due dates, merges cards and schedules focus blocks
- AI generated boards, which build a board with lists and cards from a description of a goal
- Quick capture powered by AI, which turns messages from email, Slack and Microsoft Teams into cards
Nothing about the AI set improves by paying more. A team that wants those features and nothing else has no reason to look past Standard, and the banner on the pricing page says as much by describing the AI features as starting at $5 a month.
That is worth holding onto when comparing against other tools in this category, where AI is frequently sold as a separate per user subscription on top of the plan. Here it is part of the tier.
Power-Ups are unlimited but not always free
Every plan, including Free, allows unlimited Power-Ups per board, which is how Trello connects to Slack, Google Drive, Salesforce and more than 200 other tools. The line to read carefully is the note attached to that row: some Power-Ups built by partners require an additional subscription of their own. A board that depends on a third party time tracking or reporting Power-Up therefore has a second bill attached to it, and that bill does not appear anywhere on the pricing page.
Command runs: the automation limit to check first
Trello includes no code automation on every plan, including Free. What differs is how much of it can run:
| Plan | Workspace command runs per month |
|---|---|
| Free | 250 |
| Standard | 1,000 |
| Premium | Unlimited |
| Enterprise | Unlimited |
A command run is one automation action being executed, not one rule existing. A single rule that moves a card and posts a comment whenever a due date passes consumes runs every time it fires. On a busy board shared by eight people, 250 a month is reached quickly, and the limit applies per Workspace rather than per board.
Premium also adds command run administration, which lets an admin disable commands created by other people. On a team where several members have built automations over the years, that control is often more useful than it sounds.
What a small team actually pays
Using the listed annual rates, before tax:
| Team size | Standard (per year) | Premium (per year) | Premium, billed monthly (per year) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 users | $300 | $600 | $750 |
| 10 users | $600 | $1,200 | $1,500 |
| 20 users | $1,200 | $2,400 | $3,000 |
The gap between Standard and Premium at ten users is $600 a year. Framed as a purchase, that is the price of calendar, timeline, table and dashboard views plus unlimited automation for the whole team.
There is also a seat question worth asking before either number is committed. Standard includes single board guests, which lets an outside collaborator see one board without a paid seat. A client or contractor who only needs visibility into one project does not need to be a full user.
Choosing a plan
Ten boards or fewer, ten people or fewer, light automation. Free. Watch the 10 MB attachment cap, which usually bites before the board count does.
More than ten boards, but the team is happy working in lists. Standard. At $5 a seat it is one of the cheaper paid tiers in this category, and the AI features and custom fields come with it.
Deadlines that need to be seen against a calendar or timeline. Premium. There is no way to get those views on a lower tier, and a workaround built from Power-Ups and due date filters costs more in attention than $5 a seat.
Many Workspaces, central permissions, single sign on bundled. Enterprise, or Premium plus Atlassian Guard, depending on which controls are actually required.
It is worth putting one alternative next to that list. Trello's model separates the board from the views of it, and charges for the second. Other project management tools include kanban, Gantt, calendar and chat on every tier and limit by number of people and number of boards instead, so no view ever sits behind a plan. At ten users that produces a very different total. A side by side view is on the comparison page for Trello, and existing boards can be moved across using the import tool.
What to change first
Before upgrading, decide whether the real need is more boards or a different view of the boards that already exist, because that single answer separates a $5 plan from a $10 one. Then check how many of the people on the Workspace only need to watch one project, since single board guests on Standard do not consume a seat. If the sticking point is paying per view rather than per person, it is worth comparing against Pinateca, where kanban, Gantt, calendar and chat are free for up to five people and ten boards.
Q1. How many boards does the free Trello plan allow?
Up to 10 boards per Workspace, with unlimited cards on them. The free plan is also limited to 10 collaborators per Workspace and to file attachments of 10 MB each, although total storage is unlimited.
Q2. Which Trello plan has calendar and timeline views?
Premium, listed at $10 per user per month billed annually. Calendar, timeline, table, dashboard and map views all start there, along with table and calendar views that span a whole Workspace. Standard does not include them.
Q3. Is Trello Standard worth it at $5?
It removes the 10 board cap and adds custom fields, advanced checklists, card mirroring, saved searches, 250 MB file attachments, 1,000 command runs a month and the AI features. For a team that works from lists rather than dates, it covers most of what the free plan blocks.
Q4. Do guests use a paid seat on Trello?
Standard includes single board guests, so an outside collaborator who only needs one board does not take a full seat. Multi board guests are an Enterprise feature.
Q5. How does single sign on work with Trello?
SAML single sign on runs through Atlassian Guard, a separate subscription listed as starting at $4 per user per month. It is available alongside Free, Standard and Premium, and Atlassian Guard Standard is included with Enterprise.
